Pub Date : 2015-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005804
D. Brothers
In this article I describe how I have been affected by Paul Ornstein’s work and his way of being in the world. I provide an account of a memorable encounter with him involving my presentation of a paper on Kohut’s relationship with the patient he called “Mr. Z.” I also describe his touching tribute to Kohut in which he provides empathic insights into Kohut’s denial of his Jewishness.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005798
A. Ornstein
This article describes the contributions that self psychology has made to the treatment of children and to psychotherapy under various circumstances: in hospital settings and in cases when psychotherapy is combined with the use of psychotropic medication. The relevance of self psychology beyond psychoanalysis is related two of its fundamental aspects: the empathic listening perspective and the selfobject concept. A therapeutic failure of a hospitalized patient is offered as an example where these two aspects of self psychology were not utilized.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005805
M. O. Slavin
At a time when I was quite skeptical about self psychology I had my first encounter with Paul Ornstein. Subtle and quietly passionate in his approach, Paul seemed to encompass the complexity of the whole therapeutic process in his unwavering empathic gesture. I experienced something quite viscerally during his talk: a rhythm, an almost uncanny strength in Paul’s particular way of evoking the paradoxical, complex-simplicity embodied in that form of human connection. Twenty-five years later and much elaborated, that essential core endures.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005799
F. Lachmann
To honor Paul Ornstein’s 90th birthday, his passion for good literature and his devotion to the study of Dostoyevsky, in particular, are honored. Research is cited that demonstrates that reading good fiction, compared to popular fiction or non-fiction, increases one’s empathy. It is suggested that good literature, books that focus on character, engage the reader’s affect and opens their inner worlds and promotes their imagination. In contrast, popular literature is plot driven and does not require such subjective expansion.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005800
J. G. Teicholz
My recognition of Paul Ornstein’s outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice cannot be overstated. But there’s a special place in my heart for his work on Dostoevsky. For decades Paul has immersed himself in Dostoevsky, reading all of his novels and writing several articles. I wanted to pay tribute to this work but in the available time (or in any amount of time) I knew I wouldn’t write an article that could stand next to Paul’s profound and scholarly articles on Dostoevsky (Ornstein, 1993, 2012). In this necessarily smaller project I am, therefore, responding to Paul’s work on The Brothers Karamazov by exploring Chekhov’s Three Sisters, undertaken in a tragicomic spirit that (I hope) will honor both Paul Ornstein and Anton Chekhov. I shall look at the characters in Three Sisters, especially their feelings of loss and longing—the sources, modes of expression, or ways of warding off such feelings.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005795
R. Geist
In a tribute to Paul Ornstein, this article describes how Paul was one of the rising generations of self psychologists that embraced radical ideas that were opposed to the philosophical, theoretical, and therapeutic ideologies of the day. After highlighting his unfettered courage and optimism, I describe how Paul built on Kohut’s innovations, helping to spearhead a seismic shift in our philosophical and theoretical understanding of the underpinnings of psychoanalysis. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to discuss these major transitions with Paul during two years of taped Wednesday afternoon conversations. The article shares with you excerpts on selected issues from our conversations, covering topics such as how Paul found self psychology, empathy, the unconscious, the therapeutic alliance, curative fantasy, supervision, transmuting internalization, selfobject transference, and interpretation. It is through these exchanges that the breadth and depth of Paul’s clinical wisdom is most apparent.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005797
P. Ornstein
This article offers a method for comparative psychoanalysis. The author maintains that progress is psychoanalysis is best assured when the various psychoanalytic theories currently in use in our pluralistic psychoanalytic world are examined with the help of carefully reported clinical material. The article offers three clinical episodes in which two different explanations are possible: the negative therapeutic reaction in contrast to the disruption of a selfobject transference.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005796
P. Ornstein
This article is a reflection on the evolution of my becoming a self psychologist–psychoanalyst and the personal and professional factors that may have been responsible for this choice. I indicate that life experiences, supervision of control cases, and one’s Weltanschaung deeply affect this choice even when one is not fully conscious of them. Included among the factors affecting the choice is one’s personal analysis. I describe two clinical vignettes to illustrate this point. In my search, I was primarily motivated to find a psychoanalytic theory that could improve the therapeutic impact on all forms of psychoanalytic treatment modalities: brief-focal, long-term psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis—treatment modalities, which, in my view, constitute a continuum.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005802
E. Schwaber
This article is an ode to a brilliant scholar of psychoanalysis—its theory and its clinical application; to a master in the use of empathy as a relational as well as scientific mode of heeding the data, in the expression of human emotion and the response to it.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-06DOI: 10.1080/15551024.2015.1005859
A. Goldberg
I should like to begin with a story. It is a story that so captures my admiration of Paul Ornstein that it has remained in my mind up to and including the room we were in when it happened, despite all the years that have intervened since it happened. We were on vacation in France with the Ornsteins and were planning the next day’s activities which we hoped would include a visit to the Leger museum. I had spread a map of the region out on a table and sadly announced that a direct road to our destination was not available, and so we would need to take a very roundabout route. We could get close but not quite there on the more direct road. I showed the map to Paul, and I was able to pinpoint the lack of closer access. Paul stood up, pointed to the missing road and announced: “If you will get us close, I will get us there.” His sense of conviction and determination seemed to overrule the lack of a highway, and I was both struck by his lack of sense along with his steadfast sureness. He seemed at once to embody a host of “self” words ranging from self-determination to self-righteousness to something akin to bravery. Earlier he had told us of his life in Nazi Germany wherein all of these abilities were on display and essentially kept him alive. Of course Paul has many qualities that make him loveable, but he also possesses a few that are both rare and admirable. I think these are best described as those of “inner strength.” This strength allows him to be without jealousy or rancor, easily able to acknowledge the contributions of others and most happily to remain a loyal friend. Those of us who may not match Paul in such an array of strength can easily and lastingly admire such a collection that Paul embodies.
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